HOW TO use the Read Aloud Feature in Microsoft Edge with custom content

An Edge user reported on Microsoft Q&A that the Read Aloud feature is not working with PDFs and therefore came up with this workaround -

  1. Select all the text (Ctrl+A) and copy it (Ctrl+C) from the PDF.
  2. Open a new tab and paste (Ctrl+V) the text into an online editor, such as https://onlinenotepad.org/notepad (uses Web Storage API to automatically save your notes).
  3. Use the "Read Aloud" feature in this new tab on the web page, since it usually works on regular web page text.
The steps in the workaround could be used with any content that you can copy and paste! 

Since Microsoft introduced this feature, content can be “Read Aloud” in various voices of your choice and can also be used with non-English content.

The same Microsoft Q&A thread also reveals that the Read aloud feature in Microsoft Edge is implemented through the Microsoft Voice (Speech Recognition) component/extension. 

If the Read aloud feature is not appearing for you, you can verify if the extension is enabled by enter "edge://components/" in the address bar of Edge and find Speech Recognition to check its update status. 

In addition, you can also enter "edge://extensions-internals/" in the address bar and search for the key id ("id": "jdiccldimpdaibmpdkjnbmckianbfold") for more information.

The Microsoft Voices (Speech recognition) component/extension is loaded into the Edge frame browser process and requires persistent WebSocket connections to speech.platform.bing.com (on ports 80 and 443) in order to function as expected. So direct and persistent connections to speech.platform.bing.com for ports 80 and 443 should also be allowed.

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